Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 23 June 2021 - Brussels

2019-2020 Reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)

  Željana Zovko, on behalf of the PPE Group. – Madam President, I should like to thank the Commissioner very much for his nice words on adopting IPA III. Yes, it is a very good instrument that might help the Western Balkans and maybe Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In one minute, it is very difficult to say what will be the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I have here a colleague, Klemen Grošelj, who shared the same past 30 years ago. Milošević tried to abolish one people – a few people; we know how it resulted. There are some in this Parliament who are trying to abolish constituent people from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Reality. I’m just warning you, once this resulted in a really bad tragedy. Now people are leaving, young people are leaving. It’s quite a shame that we are going against resolutions. Six years we were trying to put Bosnia and Herzegovina on the real path. If the constituent people concept is taken out of this resolution, I must say that we have not learned anything in these 30 years. And it’s a real shame.

I’m a girl from Mostar, and in the memory of Cutileiro, maybe the Portuguese delegation should remember what he tried to do.